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TIL scoring on bread loaves was originally so families could find their loaves after baking in community ovens

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QjM TIL on July 5, 1946, when the Inventor of the Modern Bikini (Louis Réard) wished to introduce his product to the public, he could not find a “respectable"Model to wear his creation so he had to hire a local Nude Dancer.
0evy TIL Clementines can be used as candles.
aw5J0 TIL when olympic organizers found condoms on the roofs of housing for athletes in the Seoul Games in 1988, the Olympic Association outlawed outdoor sex in the olympic village.
rNKK0 TIL that the highest-flying living thing on Earth is a type of bacteria called Bacillus stratosphericus, which can be found floating in the air at altitudes of up to 41 kilometers (25 miles)
XX1P TIL there is a species of mite that lives on your face that has no Anus and collects poo throughout its life, when it dies it “explodes” with waste